Can anyone help me with this simple Question?

I must be the dumbest person on earth because i can not solve this. it is very simple! i learned this way back when i was in grade school or elementary school, but nothing is coming to my mind on how to find the cause and effect in the story!! please help me! OK, from this story (below), i need 2 examples of cause and effect. Tip: Think about the events in the passage and the actions of the characters.
Name a cause and effect for that cause.
Name another cause and an effect for that cause aswell. thanks so much in advance to all of you! i guess when you get older you have more and more brainfarts! (thats what i call them) here is the story and again thanks so much!

I was twelve when I really started learning about time. I spent a week during my summer vacation building a bench with an older boy named Tony. The bench now sits near the train station in my hometown. Whenever I return, I drive to the station to watch weary commuters collared by time sit on the bench and observe life passing by.Tony was my grandparents鈥?neighbor. I鈥檓 ashamed to admit it, but I was more interested in spending time with Tony than in spending time with my grandparents. Tony had a real talent for woodworking, and he had a set of tools that looked ancient yet perfectly at home in his young hands.The bench we built was made entirely from an old moss-covered walnut log we found behind Tony鈥檚 woodshed. We spent the last three days of my vacation scrambling to complete the bench. Countless times I told Tony and my grandfather, who would pop in to check our progress, that we didn鈥檛 have to finish right away. But my grandfather would have none of that. He grew up in an era in which time and resources were precious and counted in lives and lost opportunities, not in days, hours, or minutes. In this respect, Tony and my grandfather were alike. Tony seemed wise beyond his years, as if he held answers and secrets deep within him. We had no plans, no pictures to go by. Tony envisioned the bench and then went to work. 鈥淟et鈥檚 mill the log into planks, Jess,鈥?Tony commanded. 鈥淲e鈥檒l rip the boards to width and cut them to length.鈥?br> I learned a new language and how to see the uniqueness within common objects. We planed planks into smooth rails and elegant slats. We cut joints that were tight and strong. I like to think now that Tony and I were joined that week, not only by the common goal of finishing the bench, but also by something much stronger than any joint cut with a saw or chisel. Parched and tired, we took periodic breaks. 鈥淛ess, go fetch a couple pops from da 鈥榝rigerator,鈥?Tony would bark. We鈥檇 sip the cold, fizzy liquid and yell like kids at neighbors and passing cars. Occasionally the summer air was punctuated by roaring motorcycles. 鈥淲hooooo, boy, Jess鈥?he鈥檇 yell at me. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 the motorsickle fer me." We finished the bench and it sat in my grandparents鈥?garage for some time. They eventually donated it to the town. Tony, I learned, had joined the army. Only recently did I learn why he never returned to claim the bench. Today, I tell my son about Tony and how we built the bench. I show him Tony鈥檚 tools, which I now have, with handles worn dark and hard from the hands of a boy who ran out of time. And together we search old woodsheds for another moss-covered black walnut log with a secret buried within.

Cause - why
Effect - event

Effect - spent so much time with Tony
Cause - why did the narrator do this

Effect - Grandfather insisting bench be done
Cause - He grew in an era......